Strategic Software Release Lead

Hexagon Autonomous Solutions; Calgary; On-site; CAD 105,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Hexagon Autonomous Solutions seeks a Software Release Manager to bring structure to the software release process across OEM product families. You will connect product priorities, engineering capacity, and release readiness to deliver high-quality software with confidence.

The role reports to the Director, Program and Process Management and sits at the center of product, engineering, project management, DevOps, and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent technical experience
• 5-10 years of industry experience in software engineering, release management, and/or project management
• Experience developing and maintaining product roadmaps, release plans, or complex delivery schedules
• Ability to facilitate complex decisions, present trade-offs clearly, and gain alignment across stakeholders with different priorities
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical and delivery information in a clear, practical, and audience-appropriate way.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage software release plans across NovAtel Positioning and Agriculture OEM product families, ensuring approved product priorities are translated into clear release schedules, release content, and delivery commitments.
• Own the software release roadmap, including release sequencing, capacity planning, release timing, release scope planning, and release plan ratification.
• Integrate Software Release Plans with other product roadmaps to ensure successful product launches
• Facilitate cross-functional trade-off discussions by providing capacity, dependency, schedule, and release impact analysis to support business decisions.
• Support the transition of releases from planning into active development and maintain alignment between release plans and active project execution.
• Govern change management across OEM FW products and release versions, including changes traceability, fix version management, release baselines, and release readiness.
• Coordinate release readiness reviews, release checklists, build sign-off activities, and release approvals.
• Own release-level oversight of branching and merging strategies, propagation guidelines, and the flow of changes across active releases.
• Establish and maintain governance processes to ensure software compliance obligations are monitored and maintained as part of release readiness activities.
• Develop, implement, maintain, and continuously improve software release management processes, metrics, operating procedures, and governance practices.

Skills

Facilitation

Roadmaps

Cross-functional

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Hexagon Autonomous Solutions seeks a Software Release Manager to bring structure to the software release process across OEM product families. You will connect product priorities, engineering capacity, and release readiness to deliver high-quality software with confidence.

The role reports to the Director, Program and Process Management and sits at the center of product, engineering, project management, DevOps, and business stakeholders.